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Subject: Re: body stub not allowed in inner scope
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On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 6:23:32 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> Does anyone other than ACATS tests actually use stubs these days? Why? (We 
> used to use them extensively, but only because Janus/Ada on 16-bit MS-DOS 
> limited a single unit to 64K of generated code -- and our editors couldn't 
> handle more than 256K of source code at a time. None of that makes sense 
> today.)

Definitely: To teezing out minor differences between big packages due to "the same" program running on updated "hardware": keepping more code "common".